LilacPR: O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum...

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter.
Du grünst nicht nur
zur Sommerzeit,
Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter...

Yeah, I know I said we weren't going to put up a tree this year. But, then my daughter said, you know if we didn't have to put it away I'd put it up... so we started ruminating and pondering what about a real one? But, says she, we already have an artificial one, what a waste of money to get a real one too??? Okay, case closed...

But then Friday we're in Sams, and we smell the real ones, by the Home Depot...weeelllll...

Now, when I was a little girl, that's all we ever put up, a real one. I don't know if there were artificial ones available, or if they were just beyond our means, but I remember always the smell of the real one in our home. So it's a smell that brings back nostalgic memories for me, and for my children also as I have put up a real one on occasion.

Anyway, long story short, and yeah you guessed it, my daughter said ef it, and I'm getting a real one! $49.99 for a 7 footer, that's not bad at all. So we drove back and bought it, but then the stands were almost as expensive as the trees! So my son said he'd seen something on Google made with wood, and we had the wood at home. and we have all the tools necessary, so in about an hour he'd built it! Then he had to saw off the end of the tree stump so it could absorb water because it had already sealed, and the sap or resin kept clogging up on the blade, that was a little troublesome but we prevailed. Oh the smell in the house!!! Ummmmm! So piney and super Christmasy!!! Lovveee!

Tree in car:

I could've put it on top, but it might've lost needles

Gabe making the stand:

My son making the stand

Tree on stand:


We pushed the bottom half of a plastic Coke bottle in the middle to fill with water, and he drilled screws right through into the tree trunk to stabilize it, and voila!